Karakoram Hiway - Day4

Our plan for including China in this trip is to visit the Livestock Market in Kashgar. We plan to go back to Sust, Pakistan by taking a bus. However since there is only a bus per day and the leaving schedule is too early for us to visit the market, we decide to rent the same car back to Tushkurgan.

The market are mostly for sheep, goat and cow trading. It is very lively. We see a lot of european foreigners comes to visit the market too.

Tomb of Abakh Hoja

Sunday Market. We buy only the grape which is very sweet and plentiful at this of the year.

We then ask our driver to take us to a restaurant. This one is richly decorated, probably from the time that the Russia influenced in this region.

Nice view.

Then we go back to the Tushkurgan. Again pass several check points along the road. And we thought that all hick up in China should be gone by now. Who tells us not to hope for the speedy and smooth trip? The car broke down several time but we spend our time taking pictures while the driver fills the water. All is not that bad, we finally reach the last check point which is a few miles out of the city. Before we know what happens, one of the soldier comes to drive our car, while ours is to go with the military car. And the soldier in our car can't (or don't want to) speak English to us. He drops us and the bags at the same hotel, Traffic Hotel. We are now videoed/photographed by the mobile phone. Can you imagin how confused we are and would really like to know what happens. The hotel staff translates the military officers' question for us: how much we pay for the trip. And tell us that he doesn't know either what happens.

After having dinner and leave the order for a tomorrow morning taxi, I ask the hotel staff again; just in case that he now knows what happens. He tells me that it is about the car permission.

Well, so many stories to tell in just 2 days in China!!!